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A Jordan Gibson gif that suits many occasions.

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The man. The legend. STERANKO! #heroescon #heroescon2016

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#tbt to that time I was an adorable little Spider-Man fan. (Now I'm a bigger, but no less adorable, Spider-Man fan.)

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Kids these days... #BacktotheFutureDay #BacktotheFuture #BTTF (at Hill Valley)

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Somebody caught the frisbee in the air for the first time today! (It was before this picture was taken, but it totally happened.)

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That Spider-Man/Spider-Ham up top...that’s mine!

Jason Latour: “All of the free sketches I did at Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find for FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2015.”

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Little Boy’s Dream Finally Comes True

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The Merry Marvel Marching Confusion, by Michael Golden. I’m posting this image because (a) I’m moving, and I just came across my copy of this mini-poster, which has moved with with me for decades, and (b) I thought people would like to see it in a higher resolution than is otherwise viewable online (even if my scanner can only handle half of it at once). This poster holds a Cosmic Cube’s worth of sentimental value for me; it’s like Michael Golden took a snapshot of the Marvel Universe at the very height of my fandom. Or, okay, just before it—Captain Universe seems to be lingering from a slightly earlier era, so maybe this was actually drawn a year or two before its printing. But *those* are my X-Men, and how great is it to see Shang-Chi mixing it up with Avengers and Defenders? Falcon! Black Bolt! Not a mullet in sight! This is the moment of The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and Contest of Champions and The Fantastic Four Roast. In Marvel Comics the Untold Story, I tried to convey the ways in which that moment was defined by a return to vibrant, primary colors, and the intoxicating feeling that the endlessness of the Marvel Universe was more reward than burden. I think that had a lot to do with the narrative sensibilities of the editors at the time, including Jim Shooter and Mark Gruenwald, and with the explosion of the direct market, which seemed to carry jolts of sincerely fannish energy from the Bullpen to the comic store. I know, of course, that I’m bringing a lot of my own experiences to that reading of Marvel in 1982. It’s hard to underrate the of optimism of an eight-year-old kid, awash in a world of comic-book heroes.

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Easiest way for Marvel to hit me in my wallet - play into my nostalgia for the original Secret Wars. Well played, Marvel.

FRIDAY BOMB DROP 2!

the variant cover to Ultimate End #1

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12 different universes of Spider-People by Dima Ivanov

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Maybe you all can help settle a debate I'm having...what colors is Iron Fist wearing? Blue and black, or white and gold?

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Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

"Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever. So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?” We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.  And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there. It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

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Wheatley Family Christmas Portrait.

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My dad pulled a whole "A Christmas Story" trick on me this year. Asked if I got everything I wanted, then told me to look in the corner. I even played along, quoting the movie until I realized he was serious. Here's hoping I don't shoot my eye out with my Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!

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It's this handsome boy's third birthday today! My best bud is celebrating with his favorite Kong! #Kirbygram

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I am Groot?

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Jason Latour: Spider-Gwen doodle before work. Weird to do fan art of your own book? #spidergwen